Behavior

WS.Reputation.1 is a detection for files that have a low reputation score based on analyzing data from Symantec’s community of users and therefore are likely to be security risks. Detections of this type are based on Symantec’s reputation-based security technology. Because this detection is based on a reputation score, it does not represent a specific class of threat like adware or spyware, but instead applies to all threat categories.

The reputation-based system uses "the wisdom of crowds" (Symantec’s tens of millions of end users) connected to cloud-based intelligence to compute a reputation score for an application, and in the process identify malicious software in an entirely new way beyond traditional signatures and behavior-based detection techniques.

Antivirus Protection Dates

Initial Rapid Release version October 2, 2014 revision 022

Latest Rapid Release version October 2, 2014 revision 022

Initial Daily Certified version March 27, 2009 revision 005

Latest Daily Certified version April 20, 2010 revision 024

Initial Weekly Certified release date April 1, 2009

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